{"id":9085,"date":"2021-01-04T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=9085"},"modified":"2025-02-11T17:56:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T22:56:59","slug":"mernet-larsen-at-james-cohan-gallery-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/04\/mernet-larsen-at-james-cohan-gallery-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mernet Larsen Paintings at James Cohan Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mernet Larsen continues to break with traditional Western linear perspective in new, irresistibly cheeky canvases at James Cohan Gallery<\/a> that pay homage to Russian constructivist El Lissitzky.\u00a0 Larsen explains that decades ago, she broke a taboo<\/a> by imagining that the early 20th<\/sup> century avant-gardist\u2019s abstractions could be read figuratively.\u00a0 She takes things a step further here, turning El Lissitzky\u2019s circles bisected by long rectangles into an astronaut floating in front of a planet or a restaurant table attending by a plank-like waiter bearing cocktails.\u00a0 (On view in Tribeca through Jan 23rd <\/sup>.\u00a0 Masks and social distancing are required).<\/p>\n

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Mernet Larsen, Astronaut: Sunrise (after El Lissitzky), acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 49 \u00bd x 49 inches, 2020.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mernet Larsen continues to break with traditional Western linear perspective in new, irresistibly cheeky canvases at James Cohan Gallery that pay homage to Russian constructivist El Lissitzky.\u00a0 Larsen explains that decades ago, she broke a taboo by imagining that the early 20th century avant-gardist\u2019s abstractions could be read figuratively.\u00a0 She takes things a step further … <\/p>\n

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